skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A study came out in 2000, back when I was driving a taxi, showing that London cabbies with "the Knowledge" had changes to their brain anatomy.[0]

My girlfriend at the time spotted it in a college course and showed it to me. I remember her joking that she was only with me for the size of my hippocampus.

I would hypothesize that it's more related to spacial/geographic memory than simply navigating spaces one visually perceives. My guess is the effect would be much less pronounced in people who drive for a living now relying on GPS maps.

London taxi drivers, apparently, still must pass the notoriously difficult Knowledge test.[1] A similar (but less rigorous) test was required for Los Angeles cab drivers when I drove. And of course, if you weren't familiar with the street where your next call was (or where your passenger wanted to go), you had only seconds at a red light to leaf through the enormous Thomas Guide and memorize how you would get there.[2]

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.070039597

[1] https://london-taxi.co.uk/the-knowledge/

[2] https://archive.org/details/losangelescounty0000thom/page/n9...
>Naive use of LLMs by non-technical users is annoying, but is also a straw-man argument against the technology. Smart usage of LLMs in o1/3 style of emulated reasoning unlocks entirely new realms of functionality.

I agree in principle, but disagree in practice. With LLMs available to everyone, the uses we're seeing currently will only proliferate. Is that strictly a technology problem? No, but it's cold comfort given how LLM usage is actually playing out day-to-day. Social media is a useful metaphor here: it could potentially be a strictly useful technology, but in practice it's used to quite deleterious effect.
2025 prediction: WW3 goes from a cold war to an active one. NATO begins striking Russian infrastructure from outside Ukraine. Power of China gas pipeline between Russia and China is potentially sabotaged.
Solidgiant, this is Luc Lewarne. I assure you that I am just as shocked as you are. I woke up today, along with my colleagues, to an email telling us that Bench was insolvent, and that all operations and employment would cease effective immediately. I know what it is like to be mislead in a buying process - it feels terrible. I want to let you know, person to person, that I had no bad intentions or knowledge of Bench’s future when I sold you our services. As for Capchase, I’m pretty sure they haven’t processed a payment from you yet, which means they haven’t sent us any funds. If you contact them, you should be able to get out of it.
Premium economy to MUC out of CLT always annoys me because the legs that hold the seats up can possibly be right in the middle of your under-seat space, making putting a briefcase under the seat in front of you impossible (the legs are unevenly spaced throughout the row so not all seats lose the space). They also have those fold-down footrests that I never actually use and take up more space. Paying more for a seat in which I might not even be able to access my work laptop is a bit annoying.

Man, I sound like a diva.
The ANF form is amenable to rewriting the “if” outside the “let”.

if x then
let a0 = a in E a0
else
let a0 = b in E a0

If a and b are simple variables or constants the new “let”s will be eliminated by ANF.

What happens to E isn’t so straightforward. In your example, though, it’s a small expression tree and would just be duplicated inline with the same obvious constant reductions available.

If it’s ‘large’ (heuristically) it might instead be assigned to a “let” binding outside the “if”, to avoid duplicating a large block of code.

CPS should be making that same determination on E.
Thanks for (possibly) vindicating my memory! I recall seeing this circa 2010 +/- a year or so.
Show HN: I made a tool to create emojis rating popups
> I am actually not able to adequately express how small a percentage of total highway deaths 51 people is

This is some kind of logical fallacy, a false equivalence or maybe a red herring. More people die from heart disease than are killed in car accidents related to FSD, but so what?

> I am convinced, though, that using FSD judiciously will save far more lives than removing it will.

This might be true, I even think it probably is, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence to support it. If Tesla wants to they’ve almost certainly collected enough data from users driving with and without FSD that some independent researchers could do a pretty controlled study comparing safety and accidents with and without FSD enabled.

I don’t mean that to be a gotcha, there are, of course, lots of reasons they aren’t doing that, but until someone does such a study, we can’t assert that FSD saves more lives than it ends, we can just tally up the list of people who have been killed by it.
Maybe the person is on the spectrum or something and has trouble with understanding nuances and figurative language, who knows.
> the AMS were unwilling to publish a paper by an author whose real-world identity they did not know

Frankly, shameful. Editors, especially in mathematics, should be able to judge the work on its merits.
No, I applied for a job involving exactly the same duties as a job I had just been fired from. I was not originally (or ever) employed by HackerOne.
That article cites a Hyundai model as having the top fatality rate. And several Tesla models as not far behind.
That is statistical similarity.

They are not way off in some other safety category like motorcycles or airplanes.
I think it was down yesterday
Rust and libcosmic in Bottles Next
You say this as if regulation for companies is a bad thing. Your entire existence is governed by regulations. Why should theirs not be?
The world is a fuzzy place, most things are not binary.

I haven't worked in medical imaging in a while but VLMs make for much better diagnostic tools than task specific classifiers or segmentation models which tend to find hacks in the data to cheat on the objective that they're optimized for.

The next token objective turns our to give us much better vision supervision than things like CLIP or classification losses. (ex: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14402)

I spent the last few years working on large scale food recognition models and my multi label classification models had no chance of competing with GPT4 Vision, which was trained on all of the internet and has an amazing prior thanks to it's vast knowledge of facts about food (recipes, menus, ingredients and etc).

Same goes for other areas like robotics, we've seen very little progress outside of simulation up until about a year ago, when people took pretrained VLMs and tuned them to predict robot actions, beating all previous methods by a large margin (google Vision-Language-Action models). It turns out you need good foundational model with a core understanding of the world before you can train a robot to do general tasks.
What do people think about giving legal rights of personhood to inanimate elements of nature as a conservation strategy?

"The movement began in the 1970s with an essay titled “Should Trees Have Standing?—Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects,” by American law professor Christopher Stone. Stone wrote that the history of law has followed the arc of human moral development, described by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man. “Originally each man had regard only for himself and those of a very narrow circle about him … then ‘his sympathies became more tender and widely diffused.’” The rights-of-nature philosophy shifts the value of nature away from its ability to provide resources for extraction to its capacity to sustain life."
Would you mind talking a little bit about the threat model that would lead you to using Graphine on a new device? IIUC, you have to unlock the bootloader to use a custom ROM, which makes the device vulnerable to physical access in cases like theft, confiscation, etc. So you have to trade that for whatever the custom ROM gives you?
It can't is technically correct, and the paper you link explicitly states that it outlines an _external_ system utilizing _labeled data_.

So, no, current models can't. You always need an external system for verifiability.
LLMs Fight with Both Hands Tied Behind Their Back
I don't see much that I recognize as "food" in the report, and in the database I see that actual foods — eggs, bananas, suchlike — are no-detect across the board. Conclusion: eat food, instead of whatever these things are.
In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission can prosecute companies for unfair business practices: https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/contact

Complaining to your state's Attorney General might also be effective, depending on state law and your AG's priorities with regard to enforcing it.

If you can prove you suffered actual damages due to a fraudulent job posting, you could probably go after the company directly, either as an individual plaintiff or as part of a class action.
> So what is going to happen when that mythical zero casualties is reached and more people will be dying on bicycles than in car accidents?

I don't think anything will need to happen at that point. We wouldn't need to tackle down the top causes of death if the numbers were low, as seems to be the case of bicycle deaths not caused by cars. And when it comes to speeding, it's already against the law, so the technology is only trying to help prevent it. But of course, my enthusiasm is tied to a future where this technology works reliably, so I don't really expect anything like it with all the problems you're describing with current models.
No it can't. Type 2 diabetes is mostly genetic. I can eat as much Boba as I want and not get diabetes.
Absolutely. I am actually not familiar with Bench, so I'm just talking in general, but I've never heard accounts of good experiences with highly parallel XaaS. Your f&a operation sort of necessarily needs to be close to your operation. It's tough to farm it out. There's a big continuity story in your books.
Ultimatum Game (2016)
Do YouTubers have any recourse against Google or the faker? Seems like a false DMCA takedown would be a first amendment violation.
Schneider achieves 6M zero emission miles with the Freightliner eCascadia
You need something like this if you want to use them as a reminder. Even if LLMs could remind you of past chats, they wouldn’t know which chats you want to be reminded of. It’s like marking chats as favorites. You actually have to mark them yourself, for anyone to know which chats are your favorites.
Show HN: I made a stupid simple but 100% free web analytics
TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data.

Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based).

Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something like: "Yea yea, this is great... but why not self-host?". And to be honest, I don't really have a good answer to that, I myself used to self-host.

Since swithcing over to subscription based I have gotten two customers, altough one cancelled. So at the moment I have one subscription based customer. And while I'm not planning to shut it down anytime soon (not very expensive to run) I am looking forward to new projects.

As a way to create a little "boilerplate" for myself I created my latest project Indielytics. It's a stupid simple, public only, free to use web analytics. By adding a small js snippet to your html you will automatically start displaying daily unique visitors and views on www.indielytics.link/your-domain.

It's GDPR compliant and cookieless too. One of the big cons: data is kept for only 10 days to make sure I can afford this.

How it works: the script in your websites HTML sends the domain, user-agent and ip-adress over to my servers. To then be able to count unique visitors without storing any personallly identifiable information (PII's) the IP-adress is first trunctuated (last segments is discarded). After that the domain + user-agent + IP-adress is hashed with a daily rotating salt. Then it's stored in a EU hosted DB. The raw IP-adress is never stored anywhere other that in memory (altough it can probably be found in your server logs). The hashed strings are deleted withing 24 hours.

Vulnerabilities: Right now there are some big cons to the way I have done this. The biggest problem being the fact that a lot of fake requests could easily be sent to my endpoint and thus increase the number displayed for a websites analytics. With simplytics.dev this wasn't really a problem, since theres no reason for people to fake their own data.

But the purpose of Indielytics is to display your analytics to others, which I fear will draw a lot more users with malicious intent.

I'd love feedback on the project, and I'd also love to hear solutions to my above mentioned problem.
Can someone explain why potential customers would put up with this?

I'd think that the last thing a company wants to do is hire an bookkeeping company that seems shady.
Ask HN: Anyone connected in the lending/factoring space?
I and a few others from schools like Georgia Tech and UPenn are building software tools for companies in the lending and factoring space. If you know any brokers, lenders, or anyone needing some sort of project complete soon, we would love to help out.

In our past we've built in document processing, scraping tools, and call automation for fast growing startups.

Please let us know!
Does anyone seriously think that results of any current approaches would suddenly turn into godlike, super-intelligent AGI if only we threw an arbitrary number of GPUs at them? I guess I assumed everyone believed this was a stepping stone at best, but were happy that it turned out to have some utility.
Hey, congrats on shipping your first project! I'm excited for you.

My feedback for you would be that it sounds to me from the way you describe what you're working on that I'm not sure you've spent enough time speaking to users before building something.

For example, I've spent a few years in therapy, but I'm not sure I've ever wanted to share the contents of my journal with my therapist. I mean I guess I could do that, there's nothing stopping me, but I could also just describe in my own words how I feel when I talk to my therapist.

Perhaps this is something people do, but it's not something I've heard of people doing. If you're not sure if that's something people do and you've guessed that that's a point of friction without observing users, then I would suggest going out and speaking to as many users as possible about how they interact with their therapist.
SBCL "user-guided optimization" notice
Thought this was quite fun. In general, following SBCL development (via the useful Atom feed) has been a very instructive and sometimes entertaining endeavour!
Which is why there's no slapstick quite like idiots trying to fight for equality and equity.
It takes a huge amount of skill and talent to effectively ape Lennart Green.
"to have a fiscal obligation (to your shareholders)" or something like that.
Or APL.
How would this work if said AGI “outperforms humans at most economically valuable work”?
It's becoming difficult to trust anything on the internet. It's quite sad.
Khashoggi was killed one year after the LV shooting, to the day. The theory is that MBS was staying at the Four Seasons at the Mandalay Bay (~6 floors above Paddock’s room) at the invitation of his cousin Alwaleed bin Talal, who owned the Four Seasons at the time of the shooting. The shooting was a distraction from an assassination attempt on MBS, or potentially a way of flushing him out. The conspiracy presumably involved disgruntled Saudi royal family members and businessmen, many of whom were arrested a month later (several also died in suspicious circumstances) including Alwaleed bin Talal, who was ultimately stripped of much of his wealth (~$20 billion) and influence. Presumably Khashoggi was involved, hence the symbolic date of his execution.
This is wonderful. The loving dedication to getting the details right reminds me of the engineer hobbyist that built a functional scale model of a Ferrari 312PB race car as shown on this classic Top Gear episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA
you have to use your imagination to see the video :)
OpenAI defends for-profit shift as critical to sustain humanitarian mission
For anyone else trying to achieve the same thing from scratch: if you have a Google account, Google Apps scripts might be able to do the same thing for free and without having to worry about VMs, storage, or anything else. You could store stuff on your Drive, or literally just search your own inbox for the existing word to check if it's already sent.
What really doomed the ‘unsinkable’ Bayesian?
You could use the data you've collected in the DB to generate a quiz that tests your knowledge of the words.
If you track how many times you entered the correct answer and sort by descending order on that field you will be presented with the least known words first. Easy alternative to spaced repetition.
On a factual level, your speech is being suppressed every time someone refuses to broadcast it for non-commercial reasons.

YouTube isn't obligated to broadcast it, and in some cases it's debatable whether they're the ones suppressing it, but it is still being suppressed.
I agree that if true AGI happens (current systems still cannot reason at all, only pretend to do so) and if it comes out cheaper to deploy and maintain, that would mean a lot of professions could be automated away.

However, I believe this had already happened quite a few times in history - industries becoming obsolete with technological advances isn’t anything new. This creates some unrest as society needs to transition, but those people are always learning a different profession. Or retire if they can. Or try to survive some other way (which is bad, of course).

It would be nice, of course, if everyone won’t have to work unless they feel the need and desire to do so. But in our reality, where the resources are scarce and their distribution in a way that everyone will be happy is a super hard unsolved problem (and AGI won’t help here - it’s not some Deus ex Machina coming to solve world problems, it’s just a thinking computer), I don’t see a realistic and fair way to achieve this.

Put simply, all the reasons we cannot implement UBI now will still remain in place - AGI simply won’t help with this.
Graphene's team takes a fairly hostile view towards feature creep, possibly for very good reasons. They basically only add features that improve security & privacy. Everything else is stock AOSP.

My personal hill to die on is that the launcher uses lil tiny icons and text, which I find hard to read, and alternative launchers are a bit of a privacy and security disaster. They refuse to add anything to the built in launcher to adjust this, and suggest either raising all of the sizes (with accessibility, which affects all apps) or use an alternative launcher.

Alas it is still a very nice operating system.
> it runs red lights

Fixing that would require "full self stopping". Coming soon[1].

[1] ... for some value of "soon", that is.
Don’t overthink this. Just take good, organized notes. Use an app like Obsodian to organize them. If you insist upon having modern technology involved, get a remarkable tablet or something.
Absolutely agree, even if it was just the tagline on the first page of the documentation - "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." - underneath the "screenshot" and above the buttons on the homepage.
Congrats on shipping Aniket !
Or the same kind of people who claimed Theranos was a scam, or that AI in the 70s wasn't about to produce Terminator within a few years, or that the .com bubble was in fact a bubble...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34306708
Please do not name individual workers, they were likely unaware and no longer work there.

Shaming companies is fine, shaming individual workers is not; usually they are powerless, likely here too.
You left out the rest of the copypasta from your other comment(s?).
Happy pilot customer at both my startups (gyroscope & bit.io), and will be using them again for my third.
YAGNI (you ain’t gonna need it)
That is interesting because I thought OCaml only had a native compiler.
Additionally, Ublock Origin is the one you probably want.
I understand your point, but I still don't think "I couldn't tell whether this was bullshit or not but I got paid a lot to say it" should be a viable defence. Everything with a healthy dose of nuance in the real world though of course.
Who's Tavi?
also an episode of black mirror w/ the flies and stuff
The key is: entirely and unsupervised.

Mostly your financial advisor writes your return you sign off on or manages your portfolio. But the advisor usually solicits and interacts with you to know what your financial goals are and ensure you are on board with the consequences of their advice.

I do not dismiss that some people are completely hands off at great risk IMHO. But these are not me - as was my initial proposition.
Is it possible to still play something like CS 1.6 on a LAN without needing an internet connection on modern computers? Occasionally I'll pop over to play-cs.com but curious if there'a a local mode...

My first LAN Party was sponsored by the Uni... Quake3. The two dept sysadmins took on the freshmen class (16 of us) and smoked us. Was hilarious.
The premise being that you have lots of other equally-viable alternatives. Which was probably true on the old internet -- just use a different host.

The modern one where the adversarial video host is owned by the search engine with 90% market share that disfavors competitors in the search results? That's a different story.

Of course, the better solution there might be antitrust rather than common carriage requirements, but something's got to give.
But here it's not so much even about DMCA, as about YouTube's own para-legal system and trolls abusing it.

At this point, if you are still using YouTube (or another platform), you're part of the problem (we've already been talking about this specific issue for 15 years already !!), use something like PeerTube instead !

Even more so if you're in Europe, heck, we even have the example of VLC basically violating DMCA and US patent laws for decades and they are still online - notably because they're not under US jurisdiction :

https://wiki.videolan.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions/#What_a...
Discussion on original source (235 points, 10 hours ago, 275 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521744
Why wouldn't we have a small language model for python programming now though?

That is an obvious product. I would suspect the reason we don't have a small language python model is because the fine tuned model is no better than the giant general purpose model.

If that is the case it is not good. It even makes me wonder that we are not really compressing knowledge but a hack to create the illusion of compressing knowledge.
It’s also unclear why you have to enter the prefix https://github.com in the first place.
my fam loves boba w zero sugar added... all the places we go to here in san diego let you adjust (e.g. omomo [0]). basically a fresh milky fruit or avocado smoothie with chewy tapioca pearls. it's a fun treat that seemed a lot healthier than an ice cream or something. these findings make me sad :-|

[0]: https://www.omomoteashoppe.com